Researchers at MIT have put together a pictorial survey http://moralmachine.mit.edu/ -- if the self-driving car loses its brakes, should it go straight or turn? Various scenarios are presented with either occupants or pedestrians dying, and there are a variety of peds in the road from strollers to thieves, even pets.
This AC found that I quickly began to develop my own simplistic criteria and the decisions got easier the further I went in the survey.
While the survey is very much idealized, it may have just enough complexity to give some useful results?
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday October 31 2016, @09:52PM
Yeah, the test doesn't seem well designed at all.
I answered the first two scenarios seriously, but I thought graphics were so silly, I just decided to plow down whoever was in my way and see what the test said. (Well, I think I swerved to hit the bank robbers rather than the kids or something.)
Apparently my completely irrational "stay in your lane" approach caused me to value "saving the most lives" more than the average person, according to the test's conclusions. Weird.